Canadian Journalist June Chua and Mexican Radio producer Maria Ponce present: Empire of Dreams. Interview with Kim Thúy interview at Ratatouille Berlin.

Empire of Dreams: Kim Thúy

Charis Saitis from Athens is now living in Berlin pursuing a
post-doctoral fellowship. He has lived in Ireland, Canada and Italy
before. We asked him about his status in Germany. Saitis refers to a
term, EXPAT, that is often used by some people but he eschews this
description.
Interview by June Chua, Production Maria Ponce. Music from Free Music Archive, Captive Portal.

Charis

Empire of Dreams interview Nahum Mantra. Berlin 2017

Music and SFX
Ambient Fabric Black Star Isolationism Records
Damscray Aitken Basin Shikomizue
NASA main Emfisis chorus

Nahum Mantra

Hamza Ibrahim, 24, left Somalia at age 13. He walked through Africa, 8 countries to reach Sweden at the age of 16. Now he's an activist and a political science student. He also started an organization to help young refugees in Sweden: the Association of Unaccompanied Minors. This is a raw 7 1/2 minute interview we did with him at the Global Conference on Children on the Move in Berlin. We asked him about his journey.

Hamza Ibrahim  -  Children On The Move.WAV

Welcome to our 1st complete podcast -  a 15-minute documentary.

What does a Mexican artist studying space have in common with a former Vietnamese refugee who calls Canada home?  Listen to our audio feature where the journey of space and a fleeing human intersect and we arrive together in one destination: the Empire of Dreams.

We explore human movement which is triggered by fear and hope -- it is a venture into the unknown.

Thanks to artist Nahum Mantra and writer Kim Thuy for their beautiful words and expressions. And to all the participants for their contribution. 

NOTE:  we also took a section of an interview Spencer Wells,  an anthropologist/geneticist with the National Genographic project, did with the Red Cedar Environmental Institute.

FEATURE:  EOD - An introductory journey with a space artist & a refugee writer.

OUR 2nd Sample Podcast is born!!!
WHAT IS HOME?   Do you feel lost or at home in the world?  Join us as we journey to Canada (Calgary), delve into the past, and then come to the present, in Berlin. But we remain in flight.

Home is ...  a house, a memory, people? It's different for everyone. Discover what we uncovered.

(JUNE)  This documentary is dedicated to my parents, the Chuas, who bravely migrated from Malaysia to Canada with 3 little girls in tow. Much love.

LISTEN (14 min):

***You  can read the script in ENGLISH here:   https://goo.gl/ZMb78R
OR IN SPANISH: https://goo.gl/CJihJY

We acknowledge the use of sound from these sources:

http://www.juliarosa.eu/zillervalley/
'Blister in the Sun' by the Violent Femmes
'Stranger Things' title track
'México Lindo y Querido', Playing for Change, multiple artist
'Products' by Remover, 2006
Taiye Selasi & Colum McCannWe are all Multi-Local on the Louisiana Channel, October 2013

FEATURE:   What is Home? The Many Meanings of Belonging

We speak with actor Julia Rosa Stöckl about her play "Leaving Ziller Valley" -- which focuses on the search for a place to belong.
Stöckl talked with us on Skype from her hotel room in Zurich, a fitting location that echoes themes in her play about disconnection and the search for home and identity. (Runs: 6 min). More at http://www.juliarosa.eu/
PHOTO: Nadja Klier 2015

Julia Rosa Stöckl about her play "Leaving Ziller Valley"

Mostafa Balsheh

OUR 2nd Sample Podcast is born!!!
WHAT IS HOME? Do you feel lost or at home in the world? Join us as we journey to Canada (Calgary), delve into the past, and then come to the present, in Berlin. But we remain in flight.

Home is ... a house, a memory, people? It's different for everyone. Discover what we uncovered.

(JUNE) This documentary is dedicated to my parents, the Chuas, who bravely migrated from Malaysia to Canada with 3 little girls in tow. Much love.

LISTEN - 15 min 30 sec
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***You can read the script in ENGLISH here: https://goo.gl/r7c2mC
OR IN SPANISH: https://goo.gl/Dt5gPo

We acknowledge the use of sound from these sources:

www.juliarosa.eu/zillervalley/
'Blister in the Sun' by the Violent Femmes
'Stranger Things' title track
'México Lindo y Querido', Playing for Change, multiple artist
'Products' by Remover, 2006
Taiye Selasi & Colum McCannWe are all Multi-Local on the Louisiana Channel, October 2013

FEATURE:  What is Home?  (Long Version)

Greg Wohead:


We are exploring ideas of longing. So, EOD is releasing raw interview clips done with some of the people that will be featured in our upcoming documentary episode.

Greg Wohead is an American playwright living in Britain. His play 'Celebration, Florida' is about a real town located next to Disney World. It was created as a concept of a model town and still exists today with people living there. At the same time, it is a simulation of the perfect town.

Wohead talks about his personal motivation for writing the play.

Greg Wohead:   gregwohead.com

GREG WOHEAD

We are exploring ideas of longing (people, places etc ...) for our next EOD documentary podcast. So, EOD is providing raw interviews of some of the people we interviewed.

Artist Guillermo Galindo spent 4 years collecting items left behind by migrants in the desert near the U.S.-Mexican border for a project.called Border Cantos.  He crafts musical instruments from these objects that he finds. Here, he describes two special objects that have left a lasting impression.

Guillermo Galindo:   http://bordercantos.com/

Left Behind: Children's Objects in the Desert

Artist Guillermo Galindo was born in Mexico but has lived in the U.S. for many years. For 4 years he collected items left behind by migrants in the desert near the U.S.-Mexican border for a project called Border Cantos.  He crafts musical instruments from these objects that he finds and plays them.

Here, he describes one of his compositions, "Cucarachas."

Guillermo Galindo:  http://bordercantos.com/

Cucarachas

LISTEN: Have You Longed For a Place You've Never Been?
In this episode, this simple question becomes a SEARCH for opportunity, meaning, safety and life. 
We begin in a fairytale place...a place many children dream about. But then, each of us has that wish - don't we?
And then, we move into the DESERT and discover the remains of dreams...
Join us on this next journey. 

TRANSCRIPT ENGLISH:   https://goo.gl/xY4WC5


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Interviews: Greg Wohead and Guillermo Galindo / Gdog Galindog
Music from: bordercantos.com
Song: Singer Carla Lima at Casa da Morna in Cape Verde (YouTube: https://bit.ly/2PJhzWS)
Promo Video: "Welcome to Celebration, Florida" by The Orlando Avenue Top Team
Song: 1 line from "It's a Small World"
SFX: 'High Cities of Bone' (dir. João Salaviza)
SFX from Tijuana border: Talía Gongoria (Ta Tahy)
Narration from 'The Devil's Highway' book (Luis Alberto Urea) : Blake Farha
Longing in Multiple Languages: Andrea Nepori Charis Saitis Nik Haldimann WeiHsi Hu Kathryn Abaño Snjezana Klaric

Longing For A Place

We are a Mexican podcast producer and a Canadian/Asian journalist who are migrants ourselves. Our experiences professionally and personally sparked this project. We are concerned with the lack of depth and breadth in mainstream coverage of migration.

EOD is an audio voyage, a narrative arc that unravels the stories behind The Story of Migration -- the many dimensions of the human quest: personal, economic, historic, societal and artistic. The podcast will feature personal interviews interweaved with soundscape, music and dream sequences.
We will address human histories that span centuries of migration and human development with societies becoming divided, acquiring nationalities and imposing borders.

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